QUEEN ISABELLA’S CORONA
In pandemic my friends keep calling & emailing to check on me during “lockdown”; as the most ‘out-every-night’ social woman Seattle they probably assumed I’d go off the deep end. My studio - too often procrastinated - has become a haven of sanity (ok, all that candy I keep out there is also a lure. Yup, I’m doing my part to “Fatten the Curve” as per Fauci)….
Much of my art involves verbiage/puns and assemblage decorating my frames, plus I've always been a fan of classical portraiture (& people in general). The lightbulb moment struck: CORONA obviously means CROWN as well as COVID, so the CORONA QUEENS (all powerful women, another thing the world needs now along with laughs?) series was born.
Isabella was a bright, powerful and deeply pious queen who is equally famous for sanctioning the torturous Spanish Inquisition and approving Christopher Columbus’ voyage to the (accidental) Americas, Isabella & Ferdinand united Castile and Aragon into one Spain, but their effort to create religious and national unity expelled over 1/2 of Spain's Jewish and Muslim population (their choice was conversion, exile or death).
